I was really pleased with the anime, although I wish it were longer than 6 episodes.
The focus is on the return of Dark Schneider, who had reincarnated himself after 15 years of being defeated. He is a 400 year old wizard, who claims to be the more powerful wizard in the world. His name is based off of Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, and visually, they are pretty similar I'd say.
Dark Schneider is capable of a couple different magics, A master in fire magics, well versed in lightning and thunder magics, and also black magic. Now with the black magic, the main spells he uses are Venom, Exodus, Sodom, and Helloween. (Catch those metal references?)
Here's a visual Iron Maiden reference:
Fun fact, Dark Schneider's english voice actor is Daran Norris, who is also the voice of Cosmo from the Fairly Odd Parents. Honestly, the voice is pretty fitting although I totally catch parts of the Cosmo voice in Dark Schneider. Its hilarious.
Another character who is a metal reference is Count Di-Amon. You guessed it, it's basically King Diamond. Looks just like him too.
This character was the entire reason I watched this, I am a huge fan of King Diamond, and seeing this was the coolest thing ever. Thanks to Frost for showing it to me.
Count Di-Amon was a sorcerer who used magic to turn himself into a vampire, because he found his human self to be ugly. In the anime he has an awesome character, sucking the blood of virgins and claiming them as his servants.
I want this figurine so bad
There are loads of other metal references like the Metallicana kingdom, Anthrax the Evil God, Abigail the Dark Cleric, and others of course.
Now for something that isn't related to metal references: The art style.
I always enjoy old-school anime styles, this one definitely has a
"classic" feel to it, although there are some parts in the animation that just look super retarded and off, youll see what I mean when you watch it.
I really like the way that the hair is drawn especially, a good example is one of the main characters, Yoko.
She totally reminds me of Misty from Pokemon
Although the majority of the characters have this style of bangs, I don't mind much cuz I dig it.
I also really like the fangs that some characters are drawn with.
TEEF.
The animation is also really well done.
Look at that shit. So good.
There are also tons of really badass monsters that are fought in this anime, my two favorites were the Werewolf and the Minotaur
While I am not super duper crazy about action themed shows, I really enjoyed this one, the story was awesome, I loved the fantasy, and the metal references made it even better. I haven't started on the manga yet, but I plan to get on that soon enough.
Well, thats it! GO WATCH IT
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